Education: Closing Colleges

Last April Briarcliff Collegea small, private and long financially
troubled women's college near White Plains, N.Y. sold its 55-acre
campus out from under some 300 students. But rather than die outright
or be absorbed by burgeoning Pace University, which had bought the
facility for its nearby Westchester campus, homeless Briarcliff
proposed a desperate sort of scholastic piggyback. It hoped to share
its remaining faculty and students with yet another small, private and
financially strapped women's college: Bennett, a two-year junior
college with 230 students. Under the tentative plan, Briarcliff would
attract many of its undergraduates...